> From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The problem is that this will not set the basedir correctly.
> (The basedir will be set to something like:
> File(url_string).getParentFile().getAbsolutePath()).
> This will cause all sorts of problems and is the reason why
> <import url="..."/> has not been implemented.
>
Maybe we could require a "basedir" attribute in such cases
that must correspond to an existent, full directory location.
Of course, if such a place needs to exists for you to
store the other files in your project, then the question
is why don't you put the buildfile there as well?
Jose Alberto
> Peter
>
> Yves Martin wrote:
>
> >Yves Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm writing a task which aim is to parse a Ant Project with
> >> 'helper.parse(p, myURL)'
> >>
> >> It works well when myURL is a File on disk - but it failed with
> >> "Source not supported by this plugin" when it is a URL...
> whereas I
> >> saw some parts of ProjectHelper2 designed to load a URL resource.
> >>
> >> I would like to avoid to inherit from ProjectHelper2 to
> work-around
> >> the check that failed.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I would like to understand why a BuildException is thrown
> when trying
> > to parse a URL ?
> >
> > I disabled that exception throwing and in fact, I just use
> > helper.parse(project, URL) with a URL and it works perfectly well.
> >
> > If there is no "good" reason or constraint about that exception, I
> > would be pleased to see that part of code removed. Or
> simply disabled
> > by a project property, why not. What do you think about it ? Is it
> > possible to get it for release 1.6.3 (it will be a great
> help for me
> > to release my build system) ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help
> >
> ><ProjectHelper2>
> > public void parse(Project project, Object source,
> RootHandler handler)
> > throws BuildException {
> >
> > AntXMLContext context = handler.context;
> >
> > File buildFile = null;
> > URL url = null;
> > String buildFileName = null;
> >
> > if (source instanceof File) {
> > buildFile = (File) source;
> > buildFile = fu.normalize(buildFile.getAbsolutePath());
> > context.setBuildFile(buildFile);
> > buildFileName = buildFile.toString();
> >// } else if (source instanceof InputStream ) {
> > } else if (source instanceof URL) {
> >// if (handler.getCurrentAntHandler() !=
> elementHandler) {
> >// throw new BuildException(
> >// "Source " + source.getClass().getName()
> >// + " not supported by this plugin for "
> >// + " non task xml");
> >// }
> > url = (URL) source;
> > buildFileName = url.toString();
> >// } else if (source instanceof InputSource ) {
> > } else {
> > throw new BuildException("Source " +
> source.getClass().getName()
> > + " not supported by
> this plugin");
> > }
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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